"It's a dinosaur" ********************************************************************** Han Solo from "Star Wars A New Hope" 
"Where did you did up that old fossil?"
Posted on 05/26/2014 8:48:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Sounds like you learned a lot and had a lot of fun doing it. I love tinkering too.
Also played was a later version of the original. I remember those graphics.
Yeah I had the same, but didn’t have the luxury of a recorder. You flip the binary toggle switches and press the enter button to load each byte as you recall. Do that over and over many dozens of times to load up some routine, and hope you didn’t screw up. I always locked the door when loading up a routine so I wouldn’t be distracted.
I would give the kids a slide rule and see if any of them can figure out what to do with it.
Do kids even know how to use a ruler,compass, and protractor these days?
Do kids even know how to use a ruler,compass, and protractor these days?
Not only would they not know how to use them they would have no idea what they were.
This is to balance the daily “Average Freeper Reacts to New Technology and Pleads for Technical Assistance” thread.
Reminds me of my old Commodore.
LOL. I loved BBS's. I remember some of the different ones: Spitfire, Citadel, Tribbs, Wildcat, JetBBS... there were so many, but these seemed to be the most commonly used software in my area. Those were some fun times. I had a few friends who were Sysops... my favorite being a place called the Blue Light Special.
It was cute but staged big time.
Same here! Never could afford the floppy disk drive. I seem to recall it costing almost as much as the computer and I think at the time the 1200XL was retaing for something around $600 to $700. And that was 1983 money.
Ha... I remember working at a place where had a state-of-the-art “286” to SHARE between four people...
Had my very own DEC VT180 at home. Wow... boat anchor now.
Back in our day, WE had to TRUDGE UPHILL BOTH WAYS in -500 KELVIN TEMPERATURES just to get a computer to DO ONE REGISTER LOAD.... and we LIKED IT THAT WAY.
"It's a dinosaur" ********************************************************************** Han Solo from "Star Wars A New Hope" "Where did you did up that old fossil?"
An Imsai 8080 is worth a LOT of money to a collector today. I sent away for information on it, didn't buy it (mistake), but years later I sold just the paperwork for good money.
HEATHKITS!!! Wow, I LOVED Heathkit projects. I didn’t get any myself (because I was a girl :-P) but my brother was very generous in letting me help build the ones he got gifted. A lot of my interest in technology came out of those happy hours building and using Heathkits.
This was my first computer.
I eventually got a 64K module for it from data20 (that was the name of the company that made them. Lord knows what happened to that outfit.) It did have 80 columns, tho.
This was followed by the Commodore-64, which had a lot of utility for a long while. Even spreadsheets (HES-Calc), graphing (HES-Plot), and the usual gamut of word processing programs. It was a gaming machine at the time for sure, but I really didn’t play many games on it. Mainly Zaxxon and Geopolitique 1990 (my favorite).
After selling that machine, I graduated to the PC in it’s many incarnations, but the early years were full of fun and wonder.
CA....
I get the impression they were actors...more than an impression.
Now we need something for the "Average Freeper who's been here for X number of years and still doesn't know how to post a pic." :-P
“Are you logged in?” “Get a MAC!” “Use Linux!”
Some of the absolute worst computer advice I’ve ever seen was in this forum. Occasionally some of the best too.
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